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Michael Vedvik died at his home south of Seattle a few hours
after the Seahawks' 28-24 loss to the New England Patriots in
the NFL championship game on Sunday.
Vedvik's family and many fans criticized the team's decision to
throw a low-zipped pass from the one-yard line, which was
intercepted in the final seconds of the game, rather than
handing the ball to powerhouse running back Marshawn Lynch.
"We blame the Seahawks' lousy play call for Mike's untimely
demise," the 53-year-old's family said in an obituary published
in the Spokesman-Review newspaper on Thursday.
The obituary for the small business owner and Spokane native was
a tongue-in-cheek gesture to a man with a sense of humor, the
newspaper reported separately. Vedvik was said to have loved,
among other things, "the Seahawks and life."
He never actually watched the game, having recorded it for
later, according to the paper. He died on Monday.
His sister wrote the obituary and his brother-in-law slipped in
the line on the Seahawks, the Spokesman-Review said.
"My husband would have thought it was hysterical," Vedvik's
wife, Stephanie, told the newspaper. "If I had read this
obituary to my husband about somebody else, he would have had a
laugh."
(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle; Editing by Emily
Stephenson and Susan Heavey)
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